Al Sharpton Debates Whether Herman Cain is ‘Authentically Black’
- Posted on October 9, 2011 at 9:57am by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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Rev. Al Sharpton said Friday that no matter how “black” presidential candidate Herman Cain is, his conservative views are fundamentally at odds with the rest of the black community — and white people only like him because he says what they want to hear.
Speaking on his radio program with Professor Karen Hunter — the same person who accused the Associated Press of racism for dropping the g’s in its reporting of a President Barack Obama speech — Sharpton essentially accused Cain of forgetting his roots when it comes to his politics.
“How could anyone in their right mind — they grew up in the south and saw what they saw — and act like everyone that is unemployed and that is not rich did it to themselves?” Sharpton said. “So I would assume he is either socially ignorant or playing games to get votes, that he couldn’t possibly have grown up and come to that conclusion unless he was one or the other.”
Hunter protested the “playing games” idea, raising the specter of two prominent black conservatives generally abhorred by the traditionally liberal community: “He’s not Clarence Thomas, he’s not Alan Keyes, he’s not the stereotypical sellout black person who is pandering to white people. This man is married to a black woman, raising black kids and his mind is authentically black.”
“You ain’t got be Alan Keyes or Clarence Thomas to be wrong,” Sharpton cut in. “To stand up and say that the n-word doesn’t bother me two days after he called it insensitive…to say that people are causing their own unemployment and therefore they ain’t rich is wrong.”
Blasting Cain’s “9-9-9″ tax plan, Sharpton added: “You can talk all about authentically more black…you don’t see black people gravitating toward him, you see right wing whites!”
“Herman Cain is not even going to the black community,” Sharpton continued. “He sees us as the backboard to shoot against to try to get the net in to the right. He’s not trying to get the black votes.”
But Hunter warned that Cain shouldn’t simply be discounted.
“Don’t think that just because he says all the crazy whacked-out things that he’s not going to have some momentum,” Hunter cautioned.
“I don’t think that Herman Cain will win one primary because I think that at the end of the day the people that are cheering him like what he is saying but they will not vote for him,” Sharpton said.
Hunter disagreed, saying “As baffling as it is there’s something to him when he gets in front of people one-on-one that they walk away with a sold-out spirit.”
“Old man river,” Sharpton suddenly sang out. “That’s what they walk away with: A guy singing and saying what the right wing wants to hear.”
Cain‘s race come under fire several other times this week from Sharpton’s fellow MSNBC hosts Lawrence O’Donnell and Martin Bashir. O’Donnell accused Cain of “sitting on those sidelines” during the civil rights movement, and Bashir similarly accused him of not doing his part to fight racism.
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Comments (1134)
Hickory
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:18amSo Al, you are now the approving authority on race. You clueless piece of dirt. Just because you kissed some MSM exec’s butt to get on TV you think you are top shelf. When the smell gets too much and the flush lever is pulled…… goodbye!
Report Post »MARCH4HIM
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:17amWell …thats a first, the pot calling the keetle “white”….
Report Post »Or not black enough ,not sure how to take that?
Ole Sharpton thinks he’s so sharp.
If he only knew ,He’s just a butter knife.
turkey13
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:28amDid the Rev. al not find out about obama’s momma – a white girl. I‘m Cherokee and part white but can’t prove that I’m white. Rev. al is afraid Mr. Cain will send him to Cuba and put him in a cell with Big – Big John.
Report Post »Van Bones
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 11:25amAl Doesn’t like anyone to manipsmanate his race classification system.
Report Post »godhatesacoward
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 12:59pmI say he is as sharp as a spoon!
Report Post »INOGAWD
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 3:18pmGAWD, They can Hank Jr. But they will let this Racebaiter
Report Post »spew this kind of swill day after day….WOW !!!!!
MSNBC must be PROUD of their BOZO’S……
Bluebonnet
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:34amAl, Al, Al, You are such a racists. What’s wrong with you man?
Report Post »Speak without Fear
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:15amOMG…..He is not black enough for them because he didn’t want a handout……and doesn’t believe in handouts.
Sharpless…..IS SICK in the HEAD.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:40amSounds like someone with diminished capacity would say. I.E. an idiot
Report Post »BrandyWilson
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 12:31pmVan Bones…is twisted…LMFAO…(Pardon the cut in)
Report Post »mharris2012
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 8:55pmyou know what he is about as sharp as a spoon.This man an the D party in general want to keep blacks down they rather see us get welfare and always depend on the government.That has been the problem all along.Have they ever seek GOD first and all these things will be added to you.Not the person in office.Al as a so called pastor you should no better.I say Herman Cain is the right person for the job an he’s not afraid to answer a question.Get REAL AL you’ll never be president.Is that what’s bothering you? JEALOUSY.
Report Post »Bucknutpete
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 10:34pmOMG, I reckon. Let me get this straight, if I did note like Obama, I was automatically a racist. Now if I am FOR Cain, I am racist again?? Big Al says Cain forgot his roots, but Big Al says whites “should forget their racist roots”Whites should change but blacks shouldn’t?? So MLK wanted people to be judged by the content of their character, but Big Al doesn’t. Hmm?!? I think I get it now.
Report Post »randy
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:13amCain is a fine and decent black man, and to tell you the truth, I do not see any color when I look at him.
Report Post »You don’t want to know what I see when I look at this SHARPTON FOOL!
randy
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:18amSharpton graduated from Samuel J. Tilden High School in Brooklyn, and attended Brooklyn College, dropping out after two years in 1975.
Herman Cain is an American businessman, syndicated columnist, and radio host from Georgia. He is the former chairman and CEO of Godfather’s Pizza and a former deputy chairman (1992–94) and chairman (1995–96) of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
Before his business career he worked as a mathematician in ballistics as a civilian employee of the United States Navy.
He lives in the Atlanta suburbs, where he also serves as a minister at Antioch Baptist Church North.
BIG DIFFERENCE HUH?
Report Post »BOspreadnwealth
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:13amSo O‘Donnell didn’t work out so well authenticating Herman Cain so now MSNBC brings out the real black authenticators. RESIST WE MUCH!
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:23amRushie’s Rev AL Bit will get major league use again. He might even lead off his monday show with it.
Report Post »Rogers1756
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 5:50pm“WE MUST, AND WE WILL MUCH, ABOUT, THAT, BE COMMITTED!!” Professional mouth mover that can’t properly move his mouth.
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:13amHerman Cain is rich. That is a fact. He got that way because he worked hard, has multiple college degrees, and is very smart. He is a successful businessman. Then there is “Reverend” Al. He too is rich. He got that way off the backs of other black people pimping race. If you were black, which one would you want your son or daughter to emulate?
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:19amI don’t believe that you have to be black to see which person took the prefered path.
Report Post »BO_Bill
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 11:47amMr. Cain is rich in large part because he is onboard with the Federal Reserve gang, having served as a Federal Reserve Chairman. He is an agent of the international finance cabal, a well-paying position.
Go try and get a loan to open a pizza joint, the next time you want to exercise your white privilege. Get back to us on how that turns out.
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 1:21pmBo,
Report Post »So by your reasoning, if you work for say, a fortune 500 company, strive to become more than what you are and would happen to rise to the position of say V.P. and the company who employs you is less than honest, or does things that are in their own best interests, you are automatically, without trial (except the one offered by Alex Jones and Ron Paul in the media) assumed corrupt? But a terrorist who openly and by his deeds by working with Al Queda, declared war on our Country is deserving of a trial? Flawed and contradictary.
Delete the Elite
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 8:24pm@AxelPhantom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3xf56nWU0E
Either you agree with the constitution, or you do not.
How do you know Awalaki declared war on the U.S.? No evidence was presented. Was he a schmuck, guilty of hate speech toward the U.S.? Absolutely. But we can’t kill everyone in the world who has something negative to say about America.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs2r4Jj-ZUU
Would you also like to explain the video above, or is it “out of sight, out of mind”?
If he was so guity, why couldn’t they have tried him in absentia? Probably lack of evidence.
Bottom line, I cherish my 5th amendment, do you?
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 3:35pmThe real testament to this man, Herman Cain, is that I‘m white and I’d be delighted to have my son aspire to his career accomplishments, his private life achievements, his principals, his religious beliefs, his responsibility to his family, his fight for his own survival–based in his faith in God and Jesus! This man is THE REAL THING, which is interesting as he hails from Atlanta, and served on the board of Coca Cola! He is NOT your average, generic politician!
Report Post »cjp11768
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:13amBeat Obama with a Cain in 2012 I know its cheezy but Herman Cain is tba man
Report Post »freebell11
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 11:27amGreat slogan, love it!
Report Post »eyestoseeearstohear
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 1:21pmLove the slogan!
Report Post »Made me LAUGH….AND A LOT!
Love it!
Grannie4news
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 2:19pmI prefer Cain vs Unable
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 3:59pmWonder if Mr. Cain is Black enough fo’ Bama ??
Report Post »Delete the Elite
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 8:27pmI prefer:
Report Post »Can we print more money to drive up the debt? Yes we Cain!
ColoradoMaverick
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:12amWell Al, you racist SOB, Herman Cain represents All Americans with conservative values. You represent only Black people looking for a handout. You represent racism in America. Proud and independent blacks in America have no use for a race baiter and hater like you. You make a living from exploiting poor black people. You don’t help them. You don’t care about them You are a racist pig.
Report Post »quicker
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:18amCome on people ,you all knew that ths was going to happen.This is part of their playbook.The next thing they`ll be saying is he did the revearse of Michiel Jackson with plastic surgery.You know the deal ,tell a lie long enough it becomes the truth.
Report Post »ILUVAMERICA
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:24amHE is A BLACK MAN PANDERING TO THE RIGHT WING!
Report Post »OMAM’s MINI ME!!!!!
HE WORKED AS A CHAIRMAN OF THE FED!!!!!!! in KANSAS CITY MO
DO YOUR HOMEWORK
He is a PLANT!!
RON PAUL OR AMERICA WILL FALL!!!
rambosharley
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:12amOMG! Are those two racist or what! I’ve never heard two “white” people discuss whether another white person is authentically “white”…what a joke! I don‘t know why I’m stunned but I am!
Report Post »Ballot_Box_Revolution
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:32amhere here!!
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 4:02pmTry to prove you are a white person – it’s not possible!
Report Post »Halloween
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 4:27pmNobody is more racist than a black person.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:11amI say: “no matter” what Al Sharpton’s… Birth Certificate records… he “is not an Authenic American”!
Report Post »Hickory
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:21amMaybe we should ask for Al’s papers identifying himself. In the South they have terms for authentic black people. Those terms are very derogatory but in this case they would apply to Sharpton.
Report Post »bigbro
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 11:35amHow in he// can you call this pos a rev?
Report Post »chips1
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 4:09pmLast of the Silverbacks? Don’t feed the animals..
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:11amI will respond to Mr Sharpton in this way:
“I have to question if he is honestly, authentically still sane?”
Report Post »rambosharley
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 11:49amWas he ever?
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 11:52amSNOW, hope you see this as I have left notes for you before. Hope you are well – miss our chats.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 12:01pm@Grandmaof5 — glad to hear from you; so what do you think, is Mr Sharpton nuts or not?
Report Post »Miss the chats as well.
MidWestMom
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 12:03pmAnswer: No, Sharpton is not sane. But he shouldn’t be written off as a kook. He’s a very dangerous man. His ultimate goal is an all-out racial civil war. He’ll shout Alleluia from the rooftops when violence erupts. And when people start dying, he’ll uplift the blacks as martyrs and scream the whites got what they deserved.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 12:07pm@Midwestmom — agreement there, he is both insane and very dangerous.
http://artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm (new cat art)
MIBUGNU2
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 4:11pmWonder how many “Organizations” the “Good Rev” has created
Report Post »off the backs of Poor Blacks, to line his pockets with Gov.Money ??
He’s not getting those Fancy Clothes from Goodwill..just another
Leech that knows to work the System….and the Pwesedent !!
grandmaof5
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 4:46pmNo, SNOW, Sharpton is an opportunist and this is why he is still relevant – he, like Jesse and the demonstrators, are useful idiots who are being used by this administration to implement their class warfare. I think CAT hit the nail on the head when he warns of riots and Obama’s citizen military, well armed. These are thugs who don’t value the US or its citizens. Ann Coulter’s book “Demonic” takes this back to the French Revolution and you can just see it playing out in real time. Very scary!
Report Post »Am going to your site to check out the many pieces I have missed the last few months. This site has gotten so much bigger than when we started…..will check back with my favorites, although I have loved them all so far.
grandmaof5
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 4:54pmYou have been very busy! Love the landscapes for a nice change of subject, also the new “kitties”. I am fostering 4 kittens, two brown tabby males and 2 blk/wht, one male and one female. So cute and funny.
Report Post »capitalismrocks
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:10amI think we should all debate on whether Sharpton is stupid or incredibly stupid…
Report Post »betterthantv
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:42amI believe it;s the latter.
Report Post »asybot12
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:42am1: he is beyond stupid. 2: when is anyone call his and J. Jackson’s bluff these people are dangerous!. I can not believe their followers are that blind . They remind me of another cult where over 800 people killed themselves a few years ago following another whacko like these 2.
Report Post »Delete the Elite
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 8:35pm@capitalismrocks
out of curiosity, do you want Cain to win because he said he will “stand by Israel at all cost”?
Report Post »Rojubob
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:09amTawana Brawley. Nuff said.
Report Post »flcookie
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 2:22pmGot that right! He should “still” be in jail. When he ran for president he thrilled in the debate announcing that he was the only candidate who had been in jail. He should STILL be there, along with Jesse Jackson…..I was at Glenn Beck’s 8/28 event in DC and saw Shaprton there making an A– out of himself, as usual…..
Report Post »Airwalk
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:09amThe “Rev” has a fallen angel Spirit hovering about him.
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 7:56amIn him.
Report Post »endgamer
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:09amSharpton and you are telling WHOM what they want to hear.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:09am“Blasting Cain’s “9-9-9″ tax plan, Sharpton added: “You can talk all about authentically more black…you don’t see black people gravitating toward him, you see right wing whites!”
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Herman Cain must be getting the attention of blacks, otherwise why go here?
The race-baiting days are about over Sharpton, enjoy them while you can.
Report Post »Uechi
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:08amI guess according to Sharpie Herman Cain isn’t black because he has a college degree, is a successful business man, isn‘t a friggin Marxist POS like Sharpton and doesn’t make a living fomemting race bating. If Sharpie had to really work for a living he’d starve to death. What a stupid moron.
Report Post »paleoman
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 12:17pmWork are you kidding, he would go straight to the front of the line and get food stamps a place to live a cell phone, probly even get wic why? Its simple BLACK
Report Post »dallenh
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:08amRacists like Al Sharpton just can‘t get their heads around the fact that some people don’t see the character of a man through colored glasses like they do…
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:07amExcuse me????
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:25amAl Sharpton you could LEARN so much from this self made man Herman Cain …
MSNBC is the FIRST REAL JOB that Al Sharpton has ever had
Cain NEVER allowed ANYONE black or white to tell him the color of his skin was going to get in his way.
Something Al Sharpton still has … “no rights” because he sold his soul to the Democrats
Its been very profitable to live off the backs of poor blacks he has been doing just that his WHOLE life and he calls it activism.
What the Rev really means to say to Cain is Democrats “own” the black mans vote.
How “dare” you run as a Republican.
Report Post »CottonMPG
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:27amWhat…does any of this surprise you? This is the brainwashing Mr. Cain was referring to. Black people are not allowed to consider the other point of view or they are sell outs.
Talk about forgetting growing up in the segregated south and so forth, It was conservatives and republicans who knew it was wrong and wanted to change it. The later busing was progressive and all the quotas and so forth but the republicans were always the party pushing for a fair and equal playing field.
Look into history and you’ll see all the black politicians that were elected during reconstruction were republican. The democratic party invented jim crow laws and the KKK!! Why is it we are called racists and sell outs? Oh, and I’m not white, not that it matters.
Report Post »RIGHTNOTLEFT
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:05amCain said some segment of the black community is brainwashed……well meet the brainwasher, Rev. Al Sharpton.
Report Post »Look4DBigPicture
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 11:05amAMEN to that! Al’s one of the most dangerous divisive persons in America. Fortunately, people on all sides of the spectrum are waking up to his bigoted ignorance, and those Americans he calls ‘his people’ are seeking the truth and turning away from him.
Report Post »Censored_by_the_Illuminati
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:05amI debt whether Al Sharpton is authentically human.
Report Post »Jezreel
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:05am“Ghetto Man”, Al Sharpton does not realize that there are many black people like Herman Cain, responsible and successful and decent, not like the other half that all the black men to is go to prison, father children out of wedlock and do not support them, and, live off welfare. Al Sharpton is a swine and gives his race a bad name. He is a disgrace and not an example to look up to. Herman Cain is. He even overcame cancer and so did I and I relate to him for that.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:12amAmen.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:04amHAHAHAHA POO OLD AL! He just can’t stand a conservative black. Obama was only HALF black and he never questioned HIS authenticity? What a bunch of TOTAL HYPOCRITES! They embarrass themselves constantly!
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:53amHerman Cain is no conservative.
Real conservatives want the Fed audited and abolished.
Cain wants to “fix” it.
Cain is a joke.
Ron Paul 2012.
Report Post »Shasta
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 12:11pmCain is my man. Ron Paul is a joke.
Report Post »Delete the Elite
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 8:33pmYou are right Shasta! Bail outs FOR ALL!…wait, what?…. Just “to big to fail banks”?
ahhh, who cares?! He is black and that will stop the Obama voters from calling us wawawawaacist.
Ron Paul or we WILL fall.
Report Post »LadyLibertykicksASS
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 9:40pmObama is only 17 % Black….the rest is 50 % white and 33 % Arab!!!!!! Surprise!!!!!!
Report Post »He doesn’t admit to the white and Arab part, because he needed. the uneducated blacks to get out there and VOTE for their“ Black Brother” and that’s exactly what they did….only now they are starting to realise…..something’s not quite right with their “Black Brother Barack”. They’re figuring out …..that they got fooled !!!!!!
RIGHTNOTLEFT
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:01amId like to debate if Rev. Al is human!
Report Post »proudpatriot77
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 10:00amRev Sharpton is authentically a clown. I do give him credit for being able to be relevant for doing absolutely nothing important.
Report Post »AOL_REFUGEE
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 2:39pmHey, Al: Mr. Cain proves that one can be black AND – unlike you – have a normally functioning brain.
Report Post »docvet
Posted on October 9, 2011 at 6:06pm@AOL
Report Post »I thought all brains were pink and all consist of gray matter and white matter. Apparently, they are actually white or black (or brown or yellow). And about this white matter in all brains …..!